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A smart civil structure integrates smart materials, sensors,
actuators, signal processors, communication networks, power
sources, diagonal strategies, control strategies, repair
strategies, and life-cycle management strategies. It should
function optimally and safely in its environment and maintain
structural integrity during strong winds, severe earthquakes, and
other extreme events. This book extends from the fundamentals to
the state-of-the-art. It covers the elements of smart civil
structures, their integration, and their functions. The elements
consist of smart materials, sensors, control devices, signal
processors, and communication networks. Integration refers to
multi-scale modelling and model updating, multi-type sensor
placement, control theory, and collective placement of control
devices and sensors. And the functions include structural health
monitoring, structural vibration control, structural
self-repairing, and structural energy harvesting, with emphasis on
their synthesis to form truly smart civil structures. It suits
civil engineering students, professionals, and researchers with its
blend of principles and practice.
This book gives an up-to-date overview of methodological and
data-analytical issues of cross-cultural studies. Written by
leading experts in the field, it presents the most important tools
for doing cross-cultural research and outlines design
considerations, methods, and analytical techniques that can improve
ecological validity and help researchers to avoid pitfalls in
cross-cultural psychology. By focusing on the relevant research
questions that can be tackled with particular methods, it provides
practical guidance on how to translate conceptual questions into
decisions on study design and statistical techniques. Featuring
examples from cognitive and educational assessment, personality,
health, and intercultural communication and management, and
illustrating key techniques in feature boxes, this concise and
accessible guide is essential reading for researchers, graduate
students, and professionals who work with culture-comparative data.
This book gives an up-to-date overview of methodological and
data-analytical issues of cross-cultural studies. Written by
leading experts in the field, it presents the most important tools
for doing cross-cultural research and outlines design
considerations, methods, and analytical techniques that can improve
ecological validity and help researchers to avoid pitfalls in
cross-cultural psychology. By focusing on the relevant research
questions that can be tackled with particular methods, it provides
practical guidance on how to translate conceptual questions into
decisions on study design and statistical techniques. Featuring
examples from cognitive and educational assessment, personality,
health, and intercultural communication and management, and
illustrating key techniques in feature boxes, this concise and
accessible guide is essential reading for researchers, graduate
students, and professionals who work with culture-comparative data.
This book focuses on interactive segmentation techniques, which
have been extensively studied in recent decades. Interactive
segmentation emphasizes clear extraction of objects of interest,
whose locations are roughly indicated by human interactions based
on high level perception. This book will first introduce classic
graph-cut segmentation algorithms and then discuss state-of-the-art
techniques, including graph matching methods, region merging and
label propagation, clustering methods, and segmentation methods
based on edge detection. A comparative analysis of these methods
will be provided with quantitative and qualitative performance
evaluation, which will be illustrated using natural and synthetic
images. Also, extensive statistical performance comparisons will be
made. Pros and cons of these interactive segmentation methods will
be pointed out, and their applications will be discussed. There
have been only a few surveys on interactive segmentation
techniques, and those surveys do not cover recent state-of-the art
techniques. By providing comprehensive up-to-date survey on the
fast developing topic and the performance evaluation, this book can
help readers learn interactive segmentation techniques quickly and
thoroughly.
A smart civil structure integrates smart materials, sensors,
actuators, signal processors, communication networks, power
sources, diagonal strategies, control strategies, repair
strategies, and life-cycle management strategies. It should
function optimally and safely in its environment and maintain
structural integrity during strong winds, severe earthquakes, and
other extreme events. This book extends from the fundamentals to
the state-of-the-art. It covers the elements of smart civil
structures, their integration, and their functions. The elements
consist of smart materials, sensors, control devices, signal
processors, and communication networks. Integration refers to
multi-scale modelling and model updating, multi-type sensor
placement, control theory, and collective placement of control
devices and sensors. And the functions include structural health
monitoring, structural vibration control, structural
self-repairing, and structural energy harvesting, with emphasis on
their synthesis to form truly smart civil structures. It suits
civil engineering students, professionals, and researchers with its
blend of principles and practice.
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